-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- The weather can affect your travel , your mood and apparently the size of your family .

Edie is a proud blizzard baby , and her parents have already bought her a snowsuit for this year .

Denver hospitals are reporting a baby boom , which is arriving about nine months after two blizzards walloped Colorado 's capital city . With roads shut down for days , couples were stuck at home and apparently cuddled up to stay warm .

Marjorie Silva told the Rocky Mountain News that she has a new baby because she did n't want her husband to play in the snow during the blizzard .

`` It was cold , and we took a bath together , '' she told the newspaper , referring to husband Hansell . `` And one thing led to another . He wanted to go outside and play with the snow , and I did n't want to . ... We just ate and stayed in bed . ''

Hospital staffers are working extra hours and using an overflow unit to take care of all the new babies and moms at Avista Adventist Hospital in suburban Louisville , according to Lynne Snyder , the director of women 's services .

One baby could n't wait to get to the second-floor delivery room . The doctors had to go to Mom at the bottom of the stairs , and everyone went into the emergency room to help the infant into into the world .

The infants are going home with T-shirts pronouncing them proud to be a blizzard baby . Dad : We waited nine months for our Christmas present ''

Edie Coddington is wearing one of those shirts , even though her parents , Odele and Ian , were out of town when the storms hit . They were visiting family in Calgary and had to wait until the two blizzards cleared before they could get back to Colorado . Edie was a very happy surprise , Odele Coddington said .

Their joy is shared by co-workers who are having an `` enormous rash '' of blizzard babies , Ian Coddington said , adding that company picnics will be very entertaining in about five years , when the babies are older and running around .

For now , more babies may be on the way . Sky Ridge Medical Center , just south of Denver , expects a 20 percent increase in deliveries in October . One doctor at the hospital told CNN affiliate KMGH that he expects the baby boom to last for couple of more months .

`` The snow stayed on the ground throughout December , January , and into February . My theory is that the cabin fever did n't set in until a little bit later , '' Dr. Steve Grover said .

Although the new parents and hospitals are having fun with the term blizzard babies , officials say it will be months before it can be determined whether there is any connection between the blizzards and the new arrivals .

And previous purported baby booms have been discounted after experts studied the numbers , according to The Associated Press . University of North Carolina and Duke University researchers found there were no booms after the New York City blackouts in 1965 and 1977 .

But already , Denver-area businesses say they are benefiting from a boom in sales .

`` We 've also been selling a lot of diaper bags and blankets . I 'm completely wiped out of blankets . I ca n't keep up with the blankets , '' Linde Schlumbohm , the owner of Studio Bini , told the TV station . E-mail to a friend

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Denver hospitals reporting increase in baby deliveries

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Staff at one hospital working overtime to handle deliveries

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One couple escaped snow but got caught in baby blizzard